http://blog.awswebshop.com/2006/11/27/sheep-market-thesis/ Official blog of AwsWebShop.com an Amazon Web Shop Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:44:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://blog.awswebshop.com/2006/11/27/sheep-market-thesis/#comment-396 Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:39:58 +0000 http://blog.awswebshop.com/2006/11/27/sheep-market-thesis/#comment-396 [...] I can offer a more entertaining and alternative suggestion for RTÉ which is based on the work of Aaron Koblin and his Sheep Market experiment on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (this is a system which gets people to do small human intelligence tasks for a little sum of money, cents normally). The Sheep Market asked people to draw sheep and upload them, approximately 10,000 sheep were accepted, arranged on his site and then offered for sale. It has already been seen as an exemplar system with Jeff Barr stating “Today it is sheep, but it could just as easily be choices of color combinations for car interiors, evaluation of some logos for your business, selection of most important features when choosing a vacation spot, and so forth.” [...] […] I can offer a more entertaining and alternative suggestion for RTÉ which is based on the work of Aaron Koblin and his Sheep Market experiment on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (this is a system which gets people to do small human intelligence tasks for a little sum of money, cents normally). The Sheep Market asked people to draw sheep and upload them, approximately 10,000 sheep were accepted, arranged on his site and then offered for sale. It has already been seen as an exemplar system with Jeff Barr stating “Today it is sheep, but it could just as easily be choices of color combinations for car interiors, evaluation of some logos for your business, selection of most important features when choosing a vacation spot, and so forth.” […]

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